Bamboo - well! I used to love it for its foliage and the noise in the wind. It also looked great behind my 'Family' statue, it's yellow stems and green leaves contrasting nicely with the black marble. However, I would never plant it again. The version I bought was supposed to be non-invasive but even so I planted it in a pot surrounded by cement blocks. This made not a blind bit of difference as it merrily wandered out into my red bed, the pond bed (nearly killing my precious acer) and into the neighbour's garden. It took me four back-breaking days to get it out and bent two quality garden forks  - and I can still see a bit poking through my fence from the neighbour's garden. Grr! I am still using it however. Almost all my canes came from it. I kept those of course!